ADNAN OKTAR: Samiri and his gang knew they were going to leave Egypt. They heard the news. They planned a large-scale robbery in Egypt. They stole gold from here and there. When they were carrying the gold, the Prophet Aaron (pbuh) saw them and became suspicious of them due to the high amount of gold they had. He knew that had he returned to Egypt, they would have perished, been martyred. Aaron (pbuh) had a hole dug up there, and had all the gold he suspected to be stolen thrown into the hole and had the hole filled again. His aim was to return the stolen gold, he was going to say to the people "there are stolen gold there, take them." Then they walked off into the desert. Then this traitor went back to where the gold is buried with his hypocrite friends and dug up the hole again. He took the gold and returned to the Prophet Aaron’s (pbuh) side while he hid the gold. When he was asked, he said that those were his. He said, "I saved them a long time ago." He said they belonged to him. Look at the trick the hypocrite plays. He says they belong to him. How can they be yours? You are a destitute man. How is that they belong to you? It is obvious that, that much gold is not yours. Other thieves and people around him said the same thing; that the gold belonged to them. But they hid the gold. After that, as you know when the Prophet Moses (pbuh) went off to the mountain, the Prophet Aaron (pbuh) stayed there as the ruler. But rascal Samiri is very unprincipled, worthless. He was a craftsman, an idol maker. Samiri was both a smelter and a sculptor he sculpted the golden calf in Egypt; but not only that he was talented in every way, he had an evil talent. He would earn his living by selling the golden calf idols he sculpted. He built a furnace there, from that stolen gold. He smelted the gold by tons, not a meager amount. He made a giant golden calf statue. But of course, he first prepared the mold. For example, there are loam molds, as you know. This is very hard to do. It is obvious from that he was a master sculptor. He pours the smelt and removes the mold to create the calf. One of the aspects of the calf is that it is also designed in a similar manner to a musical instrument. When the wind blows, as it was placed on a high ground, it makes a bellowing sound. For example, this is one of his evil talents. It makes a bellowing sound. And when the Jews who come from Egypt see the golden calve statue, they admire it because it reminds them of their old culture. They lined up in front of the golden calf because they wanted to return to their old culture. Samiri said, he was very sly, he said, “Moses grew up with this religion too.” Indeed, he grew up with that belief when he was a child. He did not believe in it, that is another matter but he grew up with it. Samiri said, "He forgot his old religion. Normally, this is his religion." He was doing that to calm the people's reactions. He wa
